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Multiple Choice Quiz

This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it.

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 This activity contains 24 questions.

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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 The key issues between Egypt and Israel in the war of 1956 concerned
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 Lebanon has been described as the "fuse to the Middle East powder keg" because of
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 The Ayatollah Khomeini was a
 
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 More than half of the oil consumed in international trade is shipped through a narrow waterway that empties into the Indian Ocean. This passage is known as the
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 Attempting to break away from Nigeria, the Ibo tribal region proclaimed its independence as the new state of
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 "Apartheid" is the term often used to describe the racial policies followed until 1991 by the government of
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 Kwame Nkrumah became the outright dictator in the African nation of
 
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 In its war against Somalia, Ethiopia received most of its aid from the
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 In 1973 the United States secretly supported the overthrow of a democratically elected government in
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 In the 1967 war between Israel and Egypt, the cease fire was signed _____ after the war began.
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 UN Resolution 242, responding to the 1967 war, recognized Israel's right to exist but
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 The first Gulf state to develop an oil-based economy in the 1930s was
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 Lebanon's population is religiously diverse and contains significant groups of all the following EXCEPT
 
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Question 14
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 The Allies forced Iran's king to abdicate in favor of his son, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1941 because
 
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Open Hint for Question 15 in a new window		 On average, African nations spend about _____ as much on repaying debts as they do on providing health services.
 
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Question 16
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Open Hint for Question 16 in a new window		 Because of the AIDS epidemic, life expectancy in southern Africa is expected to drop to age _____ by 2005.
 
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Question 17
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Open Hint for Question 17 in a new window		 The "kleptocratic" ruler of Congo from 1965 to 1997 was
 
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Question 18
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Open Hint for Question 18 in a new window		 The short-lived Republic of Biafra, which only lasted from 1967 until 1970, seceded from
 
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Question 19
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Open Hint for Question 19 in a new window		 In _____, long-time president Robert Mugabe has recently tried to appeal to his rural constituents by supporting bands of thugs to seize white farms and turn them over to the landless poor.
 
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Open Hint for Question 20 in a new window		 Juan Peron was first elected president of Argentina in 1946, was removed from power in 1955, and returned as president in
 
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Question 21
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Open Hint for Question 21 in a new window		 Most Caribbean states send their exports, primarily crops and minerals, to the US and
 
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Question 22
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Open Hint for Question 22 in a new window		 It appeared that the Organization of American States (OAS) as well as the US were close to normalizing relations with Cuba in 1975 until
 
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Open Hint for Question 23 in a new window		 One of the biggest problems plaguing Haiti is an unemployment rate of
 
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Question 24
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Open Hint for Question 24 in a new window		 The 2000 election of Vicente Fox Quesada as president of Mexico was precedent-setting because
 
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